(Leopard Only) If TVRage doesn’t have cover art for a given episode, or you just don’t like the one you got; there’s a feature for that! Sapphire will generate ten screen captures for you to choose from, if you don’t like any of those ten, use the refresh and try again.

TV Series Virtual Directories have been updated to display both the season folders and episodes. This is useful when coupled with the ‘Unwatched’ filter since you won’t need to actually enter one of the season folders to play the next unwatched episode in the series.

When using the “Move” Feature (Assuming your ATV / Leopard User has read/write access to the file/folder source/destination) when selecting the “Mark Menu” -> “Move to Here” on a non-virtual directory will complete the file/folder move.

Welcome to the updated main menu for Sapphire Browser. Browse your collection through the new TV Shows and Movies virtual directories, or use the traditional path directories. We have added the All Data importer to the main menu for faster access.

Sapphire’s Virtual Movie Directory Organizes your collection by several categories like genre, cast, and director. You can also see which movies in your collection have won an Oscar or are listed on IMDB’s Top250.

The Sapphire Movie importer allows you to choose which movie poster you like best. You won’t have to settle for anything less unless you aren’t running ATV 1.1 or Front Row – then you have to settle for what Sapphire chooses.

Fresh off the screen – here is a first look at Sapphire browsing movies. As you can see posters from IMPAwards really fit the bill for cover art; nobody likes Amazon’s images of DVD cases . It still needs a lot of work, but it always nice to see good progress eh?

The file preview displays specific details about the file including the audio and video decoding information. File specific details can be imported all at once using the file data import tool, or individually when browsing the files. Once you have ran the Fetch TV Data tool all of your correctly named files will have all the extra information you love gocking at.

In all three browsing modes, it is possible to switch into a marking mode by using hitting the seek buttons on the Apple TV remote. In this mode selecting a file or directory will allow you to modify their tags respectively. Marking “All” will tag an entire directory (and subdirectory). This is extremely useful for tagging entire TV Shows or seasons as “Watched”.Marking files to “Retch TV Data” will force them to be rechecked the next time you run the Fetch Tool in the settings menu.

This Because it just doesn’t make since to enter all this information manually especially when your TV show collection has hundreds of episodes. The Fetch tool will do all the work for you by pulling all your episode information directly from TVRage.com. If Sapphire can’t make a 100% match with a given file, it allows the user to choose the correct TV Show (or skip the file because it is a ‘special movie’). If the episode has a screen cap, Sapphire will grab that too as long as your Apple TV has write privileges where your files are located.(more…)

Inside the Settings Menu is where you find this beast of a tool. Using this tool for the first time will take several minutes to complete, especially if your media library contains lots of goodies. It is highly recommended that you run the import when Sapphire is first installed. Once the import is completed, file browsing should not be hindered by the meta data getting updated. This import process will also import ATVFiles XML format files.(more…)

The settings menu offers several ways to change the display settings of Sapphire’s main menu. For the most part, the default settings shouldn’t get too annoying. The data gathered from the anonymous reporting (file names) is used for debugging current & future features.

Using the default browser allows you to… browse your file collection unfiltered. All accepted file types (AVI,MPG,MPEG,MP4,MOV,WMV,FLV,DIVIX) will display, but will only play if you have the appropriate codecs ( Perian , Flip4Mac ) installed.

The Unwatched folder will soon be your best friend. Once you have ran the meta data importer, all of your unwatched files will happily appear here ready to be watched for the first time. If you have files / folders showing up here you have already watched (before installing Sapphire) you can use the right arrow (seek) key on your Apple TV remote to switch into “Mark” mode. This will allow you to tag the file / directory as watched. Additionally, Sapphire is designed to automatically tag files as watched once they have been played beyond 90% of the duration so they won’t slip out of this menu on a miss-pressed key.